Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. Chiefly British To crash (an airplane, for example).
- v. Chiefly British To damage by colliding with (a car, for example).
- v. Chiefly British To bomb from the air.
Wiktionary
- n. dated, military slang A bombing raid.
- n. slang, dated An aeroplane crash.
- n. UK, informal An accident involving a motor vehicle, typically minor and without casualties.
- n. US, slang Crack cocaine.
- n. architecture A type of tower or spire featured in some Buddhist temples of Thailand and Cambodia.
- v. slang, dated To crash an aeroplane.
- v. intransitive, UK, informal To crash; to have an accident while controlling a vehicle.
- v. transitive, UK, informal To damage (the vehicle one is driving) in an accident; to have a minor collision with (another motor vehicle).
WordNet 3.0
- v. crash.
- n. a crash involving a car or plane
Etymologies
- Imitative. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The Khmer lintel over the central "prang" or tower of Sikhoraphum depicting the Dances of Shiva is considered one of the most beautiful in Thailand.”
“Pretty much have to stand on my brakes to avoid a prang.”
“He'd gone to a prang, as we used to call it, or a 'fatal'.”
“But this latest permutation of the Fall's guitar prang, rhythmic swing, wonky electronics and declamatory zeal continues to sound the same, only different to every preceding Fall record, as John Peel once quipped.”
“The devata themselves face east, flanking the entrance to the central prang, or tower.”
“Want me to bring her to ye, or will yis grab it yourself? him thinking, now, prang the boyo, finish him with Mr.”
“Two American crows flew around the observatory at Griffith Park, bending metal as they bounced and sang across the grass, their prang calls and black feathers flashing in the sun.”
“Another US submarine had a prang in the Strait of Hormuz.”
“While it discusses the various ramifications of the collision within the context of its effect on the Indian Navy and the fact that the submarine and crew were extremely lucky that the prang happened while at periscope depth, Canada's name suddenly leaps out.”
“That freighter can't be jacked out of a prang this time -- Captain Solo will limp someplace safe to lick his wounds.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘prang’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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The weird, the wonderful and the plai...
Loved for their ingenuity, an exact description, or simply for the pure joy of it.
acidulous, aprosdoketon, higgledy-piggledy, lexicographical, ninja, audacious, somnabulist, shivaree, amorphous, quidnunc, glib, melancholy and 353 more...
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Fun Words
Words that are fun to say....
gobbledygook, jings, crivens, hullabaloo, wheech, brouhaha, pizzazz, harum-scarum, namby-pamby, pussyfoot, frippery, pitter-patter and 333 more...
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Favorite Verbs and Verb Forms
Culling my main Favorites list, and noticing how few of my favorite words are verbs. I'll have to work on that...
stupefy, eschew, gurgle, affianced, imbue, disconcerting, schlep, begrimed, wizened, woolgathering, lounge, flank and 94 more...
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1406 more...
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Strine
Australianisms & other Oz-related vocabulamary.
budgie smugglers, arvo, dingo's breakfast, prang, banana bender, bingle, white pointer, u.s., reg grundies, larrikin, jumbuck, cobber and 122 more...
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zetadiction
words that embody life
hydrae, kleptocracy, curmudgeon, wordie, risotto, qi, pulchritudinous, micropolitan, schadenfreude, neolithic, experimentalist, zeta and 477 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, P
pellucid, pertain, pampas, prate, pinecone, philistine, pantocrator, papaverine, postmeridian, potlatch, pharology, pinniped and 622 more...
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Mr. Wrenn, I presume
Names from Sinclair Lewis
babbitt, wrenn, dodsworth, vickers, gantry, planish, timberlane, arrowsmith, windrip, edgeways, gimmitch, doremus and 15 more...
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Rare & Bizarre & Whatever
Words and expression I don't encounter and/or use that often.
ill turn, prang, laudatory, gurning, supergrass, solipsism, oblate, unmindful, sitch, barechestdness, sister-block, fish in troubled ...
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jdfalk's Words
prang, asshat, goob, phatic, kinda, ghee, stabby, tivo, spooge, spume, splode, splody and 17 more...
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Funny words
They're funny 'cause they're words.
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djpiebob's Words
prang, fflanda, goob, lime, parboil, velociraptor, pie, goslings, bagpuss, consummate, fhqwhgads, bumble and 3 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for prang.
knitandpurl "Later, at the police station in the village, the Spitfire pilot paid me a visit. He was with a squadron based at Catterick, and had taken his machine up to check the controls after the mechanics had made a few adjustments. He had not the slightest intention of getting into a scrap that day, he told me, but there we were, Wolfgang and I, suddenly in his gunsights over Haworth. What else could he do?
'Hell of a prang. Bad luck, old chap.' he said. 'Damned sorry about your friend.'"
The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag by Alan Bradley, pp 216-217 May 9, 2010
asativum Quite unrelated, also the name of "the Reverend Paul Peter Prang, of Persepolis, Indiana, Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church ... His weekly radio address, at 2 P.M. every Saturday, was to millions the very oracle of God. So supernatural was this voice from the air that for it men delayed their golf, and women even postponed their Saturday afternoon contract bridge." -- It Can't Happen Here, by Sinclair Lewis Jan 19, 2008
reesetee Haha! I remember that, skipvia! "Bunch of monkeys on the ceiling, sir! Grab your egg-and-fours and let's get the bacon delivered!" Thanks for finding the reference.
Oct 27, 2007
jdfalk Wikipedia has a few relevant articles, but I've primarily heard it as a phatic interjection. Oct 27, 2007
skipvia Banter's not the same when you say it slower, Squiffy. Oct 27, 2007
john What-ho, Squiffy! Oct 27, 2007
chained_bear Ha! Oh, that's lovely! Oct 27, 2007
skipvia "Something up with my banter, chaps?"
It's from a Monty Python sketch, and you probably shouldn't be surprised that you didn't understand it--none of the characters in the sketch understood it either. Rather than trying to explain any more, I'll let you read it yourself. Oct 27, 2007
seanahan And confused, I have no idea what that means. Oct 27, 2007
chained_bear .... wow .... *impressed* Oct 27, 2007
skipvia Also as in "Bally Jerry pranged his kite right in the how's-your-father. Hairy blighter dicky-birded, feathered back on his sammy, took a waspy, flipped over on his Betty Harpers and caught his can in the Bertie." Oct 27, 2007
yarb As a verb or noun, this word means to crash (into). E.g. "I was turning right on 5th when some asshat pranged me". Oct 27, 2007